Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Rip Van We Go Again on March 07, 2011, 09:15:40 AM
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bbc.co.uk
Sir Alex Ferguson refused to speak to media rights holders on Sunday following the game at Liverpool, which Manchester United lost 3-1.
The United manager did not talk to host broadcaster Sky Sports, radio rights holders TalkSport and the club's television channel MUTV.
His assistant Mike Phelan did not carry out his usual post-match engagements with the BBC.
The decision not to speak to the media was made before the game.
Should any of the media organisations complain to the Premier League, the governing body would be forced to act.
Ferguson has not given a post-match interview to the BBC since 2004 after a BBC Three documentary about his son Jason, who was then working as a football agent.
The Premier League was due to discuss Ferguson's BBC boycott, which is in contravention of its rules, late last year, but if any fines were imposed for his non-compliance they have yet to be made public.
However, it is believed no media organisation has ever lodged an official complaint over the issue.
United have lost their last two league games against Chelsea and Liverpool.
However, Ferguson's side remain top of the table but second-placed Arsenal are only three points behind with a game in hand.
Ferguson cancelled his pre-game briefing on Friday in protest at the coverage given to his post-match quotes at Chelsea on Tuesday for which the Football Association charged him with improper conduct .
His action was also prompted by the furore that surrounded Wayne Rooney's elbowing of Wigan's James McCarthy last weekend.
Ferguson said he had "feared the worst" when referee Martin Atkinson was appointed for the game at Stamford Bridge with Chelsea, which United lost 2-1 after leading at half-time.
He denies the charge and will have a personal hearing at a date no later than 25 March.
The Scot also has two matches of a four-game ban from last season hanging over him after remarks about referee Alan Wiley.
It is not yet known whether the media blackout will continue this week, with United set to Arsenal in the FA Cup quarter-finals on Saturday, although discussions are bound to take place behind the scenes.
However, defender Rio Ferdinand, who was not at Anfield because he is recovering from a calf injury, offered his opinion via social networking site Twitter.
"Bad result today, no excuses," he said.
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I wish the BBC would put a ban on any mention of Ferguson to be honest. And stop filling their programmes with endless close-ups of his reactions. He obviously hates you BBC, so why not reciprocate in some way?
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It's gone too far for SAF now, he thinks he's bigger than the game.
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He thinks he's more important than the media. And I think I agree with him.
Ow, get me, so controversial
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Maybe Houllier should take the hint.
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I wish the BBC would put a ban on any mention of Ferguson to be honest.
I'd go one better and refuse to show/mention Man United. Blanket ban on all their games, including highlights. The Glazers would soon have a word with him. Sky/BBC/ESPN wouldn't have the bottle though.
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It's all too petty for me SAF should have let his players speak especially Ryan Giggs who broke the record for apperances.
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He is a ****** and the sooner something is done about him the better
Yes he has wona huge amount of trophies but if you took away the way the media have fawned over then, the way the FA have bottled it countless times in dealing with him and his awful players attitudes the way refereees have been intimidated etc - then you wonder if they had to play by the same rules as the rest of us how good would they have been
How many games should they have been reduced to 10 men just against us over the years? then look at games against other teams - i bet the win rate would be significantly different if the correct decisions would have been made
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He just really needs to be sorted. His manipulation of the meida and the authorities over the years has bordered on criminal. The one thing ill never forgive him for , was the boycott and complete lack of respect shown towards the F.A.Cup a few years ago and since then everyone has followed him , including you know who last week.
His teams have also shown no repect to ref's, all driven by him. Why shouldnt he speak to the media. Why are the F.A. EUFA, Premier league etc so scared of him, Because they are business's and UTD are the biggest Cash cow. Every decision a ref gives against them, they (the officials) have to think twice, because if they get it wrong , zero support from their bosses, and a right hammering from all fronts. I feel sorry for Clattenburg. And they f")ing knighted him, for services to Football. You must be joking. Any half decent manager could have won what he has won, with the resources they have had. Ron Saunders would have won 17 European Cups. Imagine, what would happen if the Manager of Walsall or such like tried 1% of what this tosser has got away with over the years.
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He's a bully. Funny when he tried to take on Magnier & McManus then realise he'd bitten off a bit too much and had to back down
The BBC should make a stand
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Not sure we can criticise him for withdrawing from the FA Cup. At least he didn't pretend to field a team.
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In his defence* he had no choice but to withdraw from the FA Cup - it was the FA pressurising him in to doing it to help with the World Cup 2006 bid.
*I now hate myself.
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Not sure we can criticise him for withdrawing from the FA Cup. At least he didn't pretend to field a team.
And we benfited that year by getting to the final playing the team who took their place as the "AXA Wild Card" in round 3.
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He is a nasty, vindictive bitter Scot who knows the FA / prem / sky need him more than he needs them
Cant remember the name of the mirror writer some years ago who wrote a piece that for once was not sychophantic and he took the hump - the reporter was banned from the training ground and never got to interview him again - i am sure that subsequently he lost his job. That was the start of him showing everyone the power he has. Everyone is shit scared of him. He even got rid of Bechkam when he was starting to be more news that the red faced ******.
Does anyone actually believe that Dowd bottled the Vidic sending off for fear of what the red faced wanker would say? Any other team and he would have walked
Look at his trite comments regarding the Rooney incident at Wigan - the man is a bully and a bastard and everyone in football is scared for their jobs to cross him
Just like politics - you dont tow the party line then you are gone
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He thinks he's more important than the media. And I think I agree with him.
Ow, get me, so controversial
I've instructed my family not to comment on anything relating to Damon Green.
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I'm surprised he's at loggerheads with the BBC over that documentary, at all other times they've licked his arse.
A few years ago, Rob Bonnet, the BBC Breakfast sports reporter at the time, said
'You know you've made it as a sports journalist when Alex Ferguson gives you the hairdryer treatment, and i'm proud to say I had mine off him in 1992.'
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He not done too badly over the years though has he? He may be a bully, a bastard and an utter cnut, but he knows how to win when the chips are down.
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Maybe hes just a bit shy.
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Does this affect anyone in any way? I don't give a flying fishcake. I'm so sick of hearing about the Mancs in the media.
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I can't stand him but I'll really miss him when he's gone.
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I can't stand him but I'll really miss him when he's gone.
Speak for yourself. Can't wait for the beetroot-faced, pissed-up old shite to retire.
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Wouldn't fancy being his successor
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I'm surprised he's at loggerheads with the BBC over that documentary, at all other times they've licked his arse.
A few years ago, Rob Bonnet, the BBC Breakfast sports reporter at the time, said
'You know you've made it as a sports journalist when Alex Ferguson gives you the hairdryer treatment, and i'm proud to say I had mine off him in 1992.'
vomit emoticon
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Just think, when he took over Man Utd they had fewer honours than us.
I think I'll use that vomit emoticon too.
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Wouldn't fancy being his successor
I would, six matches followed by the sack and you'd probably never need to work again...
If I worked at the BBC I'd have employed a Fergie impersonator to give made-up interviews to MoTD by now.
I can just imagine Lineker saying, "And now over to Fake Fergie to give us his thoughts on United's latest result, on the day that real Fergie's hissy fit reached eight years, two months and four days."
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I wish the BBC would put a ban on any mention of Ferguson to be honest.
I'd go one better and refuse to show/mention Man United. Blanket ban on all their games, including highlights. The Glazers would soon have a word with him. Sky/BBC/ESPN wouldn't have the bottle though.
I've said this before, but I reckon if the BBC simply said we're not interviewing the monkey that Fergie sends to stand in front of those logo-covered boards, the sponsors would soon apply the pressure and get the organ-grinder to retract his boycott.
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SAF does what he thinks is best for his club. You can not fault that. I wish we had a bloke who did the same.
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SAF does what he thinks is best for his club. You can not fault that. I wish we had a bloke who did the same.
It's best for the club that he refuses to speak to the BBC because of a program several years ago that showed his son in a bad light?
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The day Ferguson's team doesn't finish in the top three / win the league / get to the quarters/semis/finals of the CL / and generally win trophies like we win the best programme/nice pitch award is the day we all stop giving a fuck whether the ****** speaks to the press or not.
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All the press have to do is take an SAF impersonator around to games with them and let him do all the TV interviews and press conferences for him, a kind of Anti-Fergie who comes out with everything he would never say: "The ref was right", "the opposition deserved to win", "we played far too much stoppage time v SWed in 93" etc.
You can guarantee the real Fergie would soon make himself available.
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SAF does what he thinks is best for his club. You can not fault that. I wish we had a bloke who did the same.
It's best for the club that he refuses to speak to the BBC because of a program several years ago that showed his son in a bad light?
OK he might put his family before the club, it dosent seem to have done the club much harm though in terms of sucess
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Re the reporter who was literally banned from Mancland, I believe it was Neil Custis. I heard a story, which I fervently hope to be true, that Custis was banned from all their official press conferences for some slight against Fergie or his team.
His brother (Shaun?) was also a journalist for another daily rag and asked a question of the knight of the realm before some big game or another. Fergie thought he recognised him and went apeshit, pointing out that Custis had been banned from all of their media love-ins. Shaun Custis pointed out that it was in fact his brother Neil who was banned, to which Fergie replied “Well you can fuck off, you’re banned too. There are too many fucking Custises in this world.”
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I wish he had been Villa manager for 20 years. He is brilliant, always finds a way to win and has presided over the most consistent period of success in English football pretty much. As such, it gives him the right to do pretty much what the feck he likes with the media, I know I would not speak to em after the Chelsea game where the ref totally screwed United. Yes they get plenty of decisions, but they have had some shockers this season too. I don't like them, but you can't just hate them for being good and winning all the time.
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Everyone says football managers are judged by results. If I were a football manager I would stick to that and tell the media to do one.
There is the odd decent one but most are stupid or dishonest or malicious or just terribly vain.
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to which Fergie replied “Well you can fuck off, you’re banned too. There are too many fucking Custises in this world.”
I bet every reporter within a hundred yards was swimming in Fergie spit that day.